The Police State Wants More Citizens

Says Janet Napolitano. Why? Enlarging the franchise grows the State, as Hans-Hermann Hoppe has shown. That's why Obama and the Republicans want 11 million illegals "brought out of the shadows." But illegals, wonderfully, pay fewer taxes and do not vote. I'd like to apply for the shadows myself.

Ron Paul on Gold, Bitcoin, Immigration, and the GOOP

'The Family is Prior to the State'

An interesting contribution to the immigration debate from the archbishop of Denver: The moral theologian Johannes Messner wrote in 1958 that “the family is prior to the state. It holds natural rights which the state is bound to recognize.” In fact, Messner says that the “prominent task of the state” is “to make it possible [...]

FDR the Man: Makeup on a Pig

In his new book, FDR and the Holocaust, author Rafael Medoff reveals the real FDR as a bigoted, buffoonish, elitist windbag. Here are a few quotes: "The best way to settle the Jewish question," FDR once said, "is to spread the Jews thin all over the world."  It worked for him in Hyde Park, NY, he said. Complaints about [...]

Prison Profiteers

    One aspect of drug prohibition that gets far too little attention is the fact that the drug war is immensely profitable for prohibitionists. Ten former high-ranking officials of the Drug Enforcement Administration recently signed a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee criticizing the Obama administration for its supposed lack of zeal in enforcing [...]

Funny Email From a British Gentleman

Writes MD, in response to this: I feel I must say that most Americans are so [expletive deleted] stupid that they think America is the whole world [sic] eg [sic] the world series ha what [expletive deleted] joke, and American football? Not much to do with foot and ball is it? Unlike football (soccer to [...]

I Hate Piers Morgan, But He Shouldn't Be Deported

True Confession: I used to watch Celebrity Apprentice. Thus, my first introduction to Piers Morgan was in his role as a despicable self-promoter on that show several years ago. Being the domain of D-list celebrities who are usually on the fast train to oblivion, like Drug-War enthusiast Stephen Baldwin, I was surprised to hear that [...]

Rozeff on Privacy: A Defense of Rothbard

The Austro-libertarian movement in general and the Mises Institute (LewRockwell.com in particular) are greatly in the debt of Michael S. Rozeff. For his many, many, very valuable contributions to the latter, go here. He has also published many important essays on the LRC blog. However, there is one entry in Michael Rozeff's LRC blog with [...]

Notice a GLARING Omission in This Obama Protest List?

Different groups will gather outside the Democratic Convention next week in North Carolina. Do you notice one issue that is NOT being protested against this Democratic president? Occupy Wall Street [self-explanatory] AFL-CIO [workers' "rights"] Southern Workers Assembly [workers' "rights"] Farm Labor Organizing Committee [workers' "rights"] No Papers No Fear [immigration] Greenpeace [self-explanatory] North Carolina Values [...]

Words That DHS Monitors

The DHS (some component of it), in its never-ending quest for truth, justice, and the American way, monitors words on social and online web sites. Scroll down in the linked article to see some of them. The first one is "assassination." I searched on Rozeff + assassination. That turned up at least 7 articles that [...]

The US Is More Authoritarian Than China

Reports a friend whose son has spent a lot of time in China: China is trending towards more freedom and the US is trending towards authoritarianism, so any comparison just chronicles where we are at the moment, and not where we're obviously going to be ten years from now. I can say this based on [...]

'O would some Power the gift to give us. To see ourselves as others see us!'

Thanks to Sven Thommesen for yet another example of the imperial arrogance that Americans either ignore or approve.

Totalitarianism Update

The DHS is buying 450 million rounds of .40 ammo and 175 million rounds of .223.

Transgender Illegals

I am on record as opposing "open borders," but the Immigration and Customs Enforcement providing "hormone therapy" to illegal aliens it has detained who say they are transgender makes me shudder. Yes, I know the ICE should just stop this nonsense, but still, I like what Fred Reed recently wrote on the subject (not on [...]

Will Anyone Ever Collect That $100,000?

One thing that I admired about the late Andrew Breitbart (R.I.P.)  is how he exposed the sheer sleaziness of the Obama administration's cornerstone political strategy. I speak of course of the administration's tactic of getting its surrogates, such as the far left-wing, communistic hate group known as the Southern Poverty Law Center (employers of William [...]

Finally! Some Good Comes From the Anti-Immigrant Hysteria!

Alabama has decreed that its public indoctrination centers—sorry, “schools must check the immigration status of children when they enroll, as well as the status of their parents.” Naturally, unintended consequences kicked in: Hispanic families, whether they’ve received a bureaucrat’s permission to live in the good ole USS of A or not, are keeping their kids [...]

Do Our Rulers Love To Eat More Than They Hate Immigrants?

In their unending fervor to punish the lawbreakers among us — except, of course, those elected to office — the Feds continue their war on “illegal” immigrants. And when they succeed in driving these humble, hard-working people from American acreage, who’s going to supply congressional dining rooms with arugula and asparagus? “‘We pay fair wages; [...]

A Non-Solution in Search of a Problem

O’Fallon, Missouri, is a town of 74,767, according to the “2005–2009 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates.” Ninety-one percent of those residents identify themselves as white; another 4.6 are black. There are 6 “Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders” running about the place, and 2.2% are “Hispanic or Latino (of any race).” Yet illegal immigrants so [...]

John Hospers, RIP

Writes Ralph Raico: John Hospers, the distinguished philosopher and libertarian scholar and sometime political activist, has died at the age of 94. I met John only briefly, two or three times, but I was familiar with his well-reasoned and jargon-free works. I did not always agree with his views, especially on foreign policy. However, when [...]

Hate-Group Racketeering

A recent issue of a journal entitled The Social Contract contains seventeen articles about the left-wing hate group known as the Southern Poverty Law Center. The journal demonstrates what many of us already know:  The SPLC is a neo-McCarthyite, cultural Marxist organization whose basic role within the Democratic Party is to smear all conservative or [...]

How You Can Tell (and Not Tell) Who Is a Terrorist

Here are a couple of items to take note of from the Oklahoma Office of Fatherland Security. (By the way, check out that classic Illuminati "watchful eye" symbol on this banner from the OKOHS's website.) How you can tell: "Controversial issues being debated." [A description of many of the chat rooms and blogs on the [...]

Walter Block Speeches for the San Francisco Bay Area This Weekend

If you're in the SF Bay area this weekend, c'mon down and join me for two of my upcoming speeches. Both are free and open to the public. The first will be for a mainly libertarian audience, the second for an audience that I suspect will be less supportive. They are as follows: Nov 5. [...]

Der Kommissar's in Town, or How To Denounce Tom Woods

So I managed to intercept the memo that is evidently circulating among the commissars of approved opinion, several of whom have written virtually identical attacks on me in recent days.  Key points: 1) Nullification is stupid and unconstitutional, but do not give evidence for this assertion.  Ex cathedra pronouncements are all these deviants deserve.  And [...]

Publication Milestone; Upcoming Speeches

Dear Folks: I don't know how to say this without appearing to be bragging. But I don't mean to brag, merely to share some good news about my publication record. Hey, if I can't share good news with people on this list, I can't share it with anyone. Well, here goes: I have recently passed the [...]

"Bdla, Bdla, Bdla: That's All, Folks!"

I just turned on CNN to discover a "news" report about comedian Stephen Colbert testifying before Congress on "farm labor and immigration."  It seems he had done a comic routine on the topic which, in this age, qualifies him to share his expertise with the political establishment.  The CNN report followed a "breaking news" story about [...]

Kane Not Sending Arpaio a Donation

Writes Glenn Jacobs: I received a solicitation for a donation to Joe Arpaio's campaign today. The letter chronicled Arpaio's battles with illegal immigrants, Mexican drug cartels, and "open-border" leftists. I find it alarming that a local politician is utilizing illegal immigration as a national fund-raising platform (especially a fascist thug like Arpaio). Meanwhile, we have [...]

Gay Marriage and Immigration

I have many problems with the US constitution, but it is the legal regime we are told we live under. Marriage, to take one example, is mentioned nowhere in the constitution, and therefore is no business of the federal congress, the federal courts, nor any other arm of the DC leviathan. The feds, according to [...]

Internal Checkpoints

Writes Glenn "Kane" Jacobs: Ever since the Border Patrol installed internal checkpoints in south Texas, I now loathe traveling through the area. Last night, I was on my way from Laredo to San Antonio, and came upon one of these checkpoints. Of course, the agents were nice enough, but they asked (demanded) to know where [...]

The Immigration Problem Resolved

With all the efforts being made by states and cities to address the so-called "illegal immigration" problem — including making it a crime to rent to or employ such people — I wonder why the most obvious solution has not been offered.  An Arizona statute gives the police power to stop and question those who, [...]

Joel Stein Is So Funny

But like other great satirists, he sometimes gets in trouble. Writes Joe Salero: "Stein is writing about the town that I grew up in, and where my mother still lives, in his controversial satirical column in Time on Indian immigration. Here are the PC'ers." This is not the first time that Joel has had pressure [...]

Calderon Is Not Alone

From Guillermo in El Salvador: I was astonished to hear El Presidente Calderon speaking English at a Rose Garden press conference and later at a joint session of Congress. I was disgusted, too, at the applause he got for his anti-Arizona remarks. On immigration, why not a complete freedom to cross borders? I know that [...]

Our Corruptos Cheer Their Own

Mexican President Calderon addresses Congress, where they cheer him instead of instructing the Sergeant-at-Arms to throw him out. One interesting note: Foreign heads of state addressing Congress customarily speak in their country's language. For instance, King Juan Carlos of Spain, who speaks perfect Oxford English, addresses the Congress in Spanish. How to account for Calderon's [...]

What’s the Real Message From Those GM Ads?

“Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft.” ~ Nietzsche There is no shortage of reporting about GM CEO Ed Whitacre’s recent series of TV ads touting GM’s ostensible early repayment of federal loan money.  Fox News—or as I like to refer to it, Faux News—is all over it.  A [...]

Top10

Here are the best-read for April 25-May 1, 2010: 1. Domestic Transformer. 2. Don't Call Obama a Socialist: He's a Corporatist, by Ron Paul. 3. Renouncing American Citizenship, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. 4. Guns as Investments. 5. This Sucker Is Going Down, by James Howard Kunstler. 6. The Case for No Navy, by Fred [...]

Tues3

The three best-read were: Ron Paul - Obama's not a socialist, he's a corporatist; renouncing American citizenship, and Arizona revolts, by Ewan MacAskill.

Another Politician Caught With His Mouth Open

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown's campaign is imploding, and it couldn't happen to a nicer person. The latest firestorm: After a spirited exchange with a 65-year-old woman (and lifelong Labor supporter), he got in his car and was caught calling her "a bigoted woman" because she was for tougher laws on immigration. It seems that [...]

Do You Wish the Constitution Could Be Enforced . . .,

. . . or government spending could be controlled?  Do you think you're overtaxed? Did the Fed cause the housing bubble?  Should it be audited?  Is it proper for Washington, D.C. "think tanks" to sponsor public debates in immigration policy?  Do you oppose the political agenda of what used to be called "The Lunatic Left," [...]

The Politics of Obammunism

The Obammunist's socialized health care legislation promises to cut Medicare spending by hundreds of billions of dollars while increasing Medicaid spending by hundreds of billions.  At least half of all Medicare enrollees vote Republican; almost all Medicaid enrollees vote Democrat.  This is why the Obammunists are so euphoric today. Wicked Witch Pelosi (D-Botox) says this law is [...]

Your Big Brother Has Now Become 'Big Brother'

The easiest way for the Masters on top to control us is to have us control ourselves. In the Nazi concentration camps, select prisoners were chosen to watch over the rest of the prison population. In the latest move towards One World Government, it seems that the entire world has now become a "neighborhood watch": [...]

Black Conservatives Expose "Hate Group" Scam

A good example of the censorship scam that is operated by the left-wing hate group known as the Southern Poverty Law Center is an article on their Web site calling the American Enterprise Institute a "hate group" for sponsoring a public DEBATE on immigration policy.  This article in Issues and Views exposes this kind of [...]

Cowen ♥ Hoppe

Once upon a time, didn't some-government economist Tyler Cowen advocate open borders, and criticize those who did not agree? Perhaps not. In any event, now he endorses "legal limits" on immigration "in many cases, including the United States, Switzerland, and Iceland." Memo to the literal: that headline is a joke (and comes from another blogger); [...]

Big Ag and Intellectual Property

This weekend I saw the film Food, Inc., a treatment of modern monoculture, the fast food industry and factory farming. There were some parts that would make any libertarian cringe, and yet the movie did place a fair amount of blame on the state. Michael Pollan, food journalist and hero of the "slow food movement," [...]

WASP Establishment and the Holocaust

As a history teacher I have discovered that one of the most enduring myths of younger Americans not versed in the history of their country preceding their birth, is that the United States entered the Second World War in order to save the Jews of Europe. In fact, the very opposite was the case. The [...]

The 5 Pledges

A friend writes to ask if I have signed Glenn Beck's 5 pledges. Well, I'm a 9/10 guy, and this pledge is designed for tax-victimizers, not tax-victims, but here is my translation [in brackets]: THE 5 PLEDGES "1) I believe in a balanced budget and therefore will vote for a freeze in government spending until [...]

Joe Arpaio's Amerika

As Mark Thornton of the Mises Institute has pointed out, the immigration "crisis" — a by-product of the Fed's financial bubble — is subsiding. This doesn't mean, however, that we'll soon see an end to the police state abuses supposedly intended to "secure our borders." Those abuses have been tolerated and even applauded by conservatives whose [...]